One person is deceased following a fire Friday night in Norton. According to Steve McElroy of the Norton Fire Department, the unit was dispatched around 11:30 p.m. to property near Wharton Lane, beneath the Tipple Hill bridge. A small camper, the kind that a vehicle would tow, was fully engulfed ...

More than a week following the second major winter storm to strike Wise County, some residents still couldn’t escape their homes. Driveways and cars remained buried beneath as much as two feet of snow, barricading some homeowners who could not physically dig themselves out. The Virginia National Guard spent more than a week assisting the county sheriff’s office in medical transports and food, water, and medicinal deliveries for snowbound residents, but the guard departed last Friday, leaving these tasks to a new wave of volunteers. Team Rubicon, a national military veteran-led disaster reli...